LEEDS: Pakistan need another 40 runs on Saturday to register a historic victory over Australia at Leeds.

At stumps on Day three, Azhar Ali was batting on 47, while he was being supported by Umar Akmal on 2. Australia, after a cameo by Steven Smith, set 180-run target for Pakistan.
Smith’s swashbuckling innings lasted 100 balls and included two sixes and nine fours, as Australia’s last three wickets added 103 runs.
Michael Clarke hit 77 from 143 balls, including seven fours, while Ricky Ponting made 66 from 116 balls, with seven fours.
Mohammad Aamer was Pakistan’s leading bowler with 4-86.
Australia began the day on 136-2 and after surviving a series of appeals on Thursday, Ponting’s good fortune continued when he edged a delivery from Mohammad Asif just wide of second slip at the end of the second over of the day, the 43rd.
But the captain’s luck finally ran out in the next over, when Ponting slashed at a wide delivery from Aamer and was caught by a tumbling Kamran Akmal.
Michael Hussey was Aamer’s next wicket, nicking the third ball of the 48th over to Umar Akmal at second slip for 8.
In Aamer’s next over he bowled Marcus North for 0, to leave Australia five wickets down and still trailing by six runs.
That left Clarke as Australia’s sole specialist batsmen and he brought up his 50, from 99 balls, in the 52nd over with a single from Aamer.
A power failure in Leeds meant the players had to continue without a scoreboard or the services of the television umpire.
Clarke and Tim Paine survived to lunch only for Clarke, having batted for four hours, to perish in the second over of the afternoon session, caught behind off Mohammad Asif.
Danish Kaneria claimed his first wicket of the Test with one of the worst balls of the match, a rank long hop that Paine (33) chopped straight to Umar Gul at cover in the 75th over.
However, Smith and Mitchell Johnson (12) added 37 potentially crucial runs to increase Australia’s lead to over 100, before Johnson was lbw to Asif in the 85th.
Ben Hilfenhaus (17) hit three fours during the 88th bowled by Aamer, before he was caught by Umar Akmal at first slip off Kaneria.
Smith brought up his first Test 50 with a sweep off Kaneria three overs later, then hit successive sixes off the same bowler, including one that landed on the roof of the rugby stand.
Smith was finally bowled in the 96th by Gul, but by then the lead had been extended beyond the 176 — Pakistan notoriously failed to reach at Sydney in January — when Australia overcame a 206-run deficit to win by 36 runs.